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Friday, June 6, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip Walks into my Parlour

I've spend a couple of mornings these past few weeks in a small wooded/park area, with the few minutes I have in-between dropping my kids off at daycare and starting my full time job, challenging myself to some high-speed macro shooting with my FS700 and Sigma 24mm Macro lens. My goal was to get clips of some male mosquitoes (since they are abundant here and they don't bite) flying around dreamily in slow motion. I usually walk away without any usable footage but a game plan for something new to try the next day. The razor-thin depth of field when shooting macro made following around a very small bug, that flies VERY fast, quite a feat. I took a break from chasing them around when I noticed this spider in a web lit very well by the rising sun. Amazingly, in between hitting record and the camera actually beginning the record, one of the mosquitoes flew into the web!!! It was an incredible thing to catch, considering I was already set up to shoot/expose at 240fps. I was also channeling my inner J.J. Abrams with that lens flare popping into the shot. Hope you can use it!!!

Fun side project: In your NLE, take the video clip and speed it up 10x to see the real speed in which this whole thing happened.

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